i see. Thanks guys.
I've got it working thanks to your inputs.
Really appreciate it.
Best Regards,
Stanwin Siow
On Feb 27, 2012, at 4:36 PM, doniyor wrote:
> yes, as Ian said, you need name attr in your input so that you can
> navigate to the real string input the user gives..
>
>
>
> On 27 Feb., 08:38, Ian Clelland <clell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday, February 26, 2012, Stanwin Siow wrote:
>>> Ok disregard my previous question.
>>
>>> Here's the latest one.
>>
>>> I have the following form in my HTML:
>>> * <form method="POST" id="keywordForm" action="/keyword_subscribe/">*
>>> * <label>Keyword: </label>*
>>> * <input id="myTextField" type="text" size="50" value="Enter a new
>>> keyword for rosebud to crawl!">*
>>
>> Your immediate problem here is that your <input> element has an id, but no
>> name attribute. That is why you are getting None when you try to retrieve
>> it from the POST dictionary -- the browser never sent it to the server.
>>
>> I'm certain that you have additional issues with your view function, but
>> this is the reason for the error that you are seeing right now.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> * </br>*
>>> * <input type="submit" value="Submit" />*
>>> * </form>*
>>
>>> when the user presses the submit button, it will go to the method
>>> keyword_subscribe in views.py
>>
>>> The method is as shown:
>>
>>> *def keyword_subscribe(request):*
>>> * if request.POST:*
>>> * username = UserProfile.objects.all()*
>>> * #userid = username.objects.all()*
>>> * subscription_days = "7"*
>>> * new_keyword = request.POST.get('myTextField')*
>>> * print new_keyword*
>>> * new_keyword_subscribed =
>>> subscribe_keyword(username,subscription_days,new_keyword) *
>>> * *
>>> * response = simplejson.dumps({'new_keyword':
>>> new_keyword_subscribed}) *
>>> * print new_keyword_subscribed *
>>> * else:*
>>> * # html = form.errors.as_ul()*
>>> * response = simplejson.dumps({'success':'False'})*
>>> * return HttpResponseRedirect("/accounts/login/")*
>>> * #if request.is_ajax():*
>>> * # return HttpResponse(response, mimetype='application/json')*
>>> * #else:*
>>> * # return HttpResponseRedirect("/")*
>>
>>> Once in this method, i'm supposed to extract the word which the user
>>> entered in the textfield and store it in a variable called new_keyword
>>
>>> However, i've been getting NONE which means there's something wrong
>>> somewhere and i do hope someone can help me.
>>
>>> In addition, i would like to get the username which is stored in the
>>> UserProfile table in my database to be passed as a parameter to the next
>>> function too.
>>
>>> How then do i implement the queryset needed?
>>
>>> This should be clearer.
>>
>>> Thank you.
>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>
>>> Stanwin Siow
>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Daniel Roseman wrote:
>>
>>> Your question is not at all clear. You can use whatever you like in your
>>> view. What problem are you having?
>>> --
>>> DR.
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